The Possibility of Health Care Directives for Vaccinations-A Consultation Study With Relevant Stakeholders.

Background And Aims: Health care directives allow individuals to express their wishes about future health care treatments if they become unable to communicate their wishes (e.g., due to cognitive impairment).

Approaches and hurdles of implementing pharmacogenetic testing in the psychiatric clinic.

Pharmacogenetic (PGx) testing has emerged as a tool for predicting a person's ability to process and react to drugs. Despite the growing evidence-base, enthusiasm, and successful efforts to implement PGx testing in psychiatry, a consensus on how best to implement PGx testing into practice has not been established and numerous hurdles to widespread adoption remain to be overcome. In this article, we summarize the most used approaches and commonly encountered hurdles when implementing PGx testing into routine psychiatric care.